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Wm Q.
Morton & Elizabeth McRobert Venable
Philip Hanna
<cphanna51@msn.com>
OI am descended from William Quinn Morton / Elizabeth
McRobert Venable though their daughter Agnes Morton
Their portraits are attached.
Anyway, here is my brief line of decent from that pair
Agnes Morton married William Chenoweth Hanna -they are
buried in the Hanna-Stephens Bird Cemetery on the
property of Mulberry Orchard.
They had several children, one of whom was C. Morton
Hanna (I), my great grandfather Two of his siblings are
buried there and died in the civil war from what I can
tell.
One of his sons was Charles Morton Hanna (II), my
grandfather who was a pastor and professor at Louisville
Presbyterian Seminary . CHM II grew up in the Hanna
house just off Mulberry Pike and it is owned by two guys
and I’ve been in it recently.
One of CMH II;s sons was Edwin Bell Hanna who was a
Presbyterian pastor and missionary in Lebanon.. Edwin
was my father and he saved various family records and
documents pertaining to their history in Shelby County.
The Hanna family mostly lived in the Mulberry Community
and were members of the Mulberry Presbyterian Church
while it still operated.
Among the things I have is a little booklet from the
Mulberry Presbyterian Church: A Historical Pageant,
October 12, 1946, a collection of events in which they
celebrated their heritage as a church and community
going back to 1796. Today I scanned that booklet into a
pdf and am sending it to you for your historical
records. I doubt many, if any, have a copy of this. In
one event, my father, Edwin Bell Hanna, then almost 20,
reenacts the marriage of William Chenoweth Hanna to
Agnes Morton (Played by his cousin Betsey Hanna Schmidt
(wife of Craig Schmidt (coca cola) mother of Paul
Schmidt. My grandfather, Rev. C. Morton Hanna, acted as
the pastor performing the marriage.
One of my cousins has the attached painting of WQM, and
I have found a portrait of his wife. I recently learned
that one of their sons, John Samuel Morton, was a
portrait painter – and he did the picture of his mother
, possibly the one of his father. We just don’t know and
cannot find the evidence. JSM moved to Missouri, Texas,
and family Mexico and was a portrait painter of some
merit That is recent information. I believe he died in
Mexico.
I added a page on WQM and his wife EMcRV and their
potraits. The one of WQU did not come out well on the
scan, so I’ve attached it and one of his wife done by
their son. In the painting of WQM, his fingers were not
quite right and he has nine fingers. We always joked
about that at meals at grandmother’s house. She was a
Bell from W.Va. who met C. Morton Hanna II when he was a
pastor in Virginia.
Enjoy
Phil Hanna
Mulberry
Presbyterian Church Historical Pageant October 12, 1946
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